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Auguste Comte
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Auguste Comte
Founder of French positivism. Invented the term sociology.
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Harriet Martineau
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Harriet Martineau
Founding mother of sociology. Translated Auguste Comte's Les Cours de Philosophie Positive.
Nationality: English. -
Karl Marx
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Karl Marx
Created the Conflict Theory. "the history of all existing society is a history of class struggle"
Nationality: German. -
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer
Views and ideas about evolulution (social evolution). Coined the phrase "survival of the fittest".
Nationality: Canadian. -
Emile Durkheim
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Emile Durkheim
Father of sociology. Made sociology a science.
Nationality: French. -
Jane Addams
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Jane Addams
Social worker. Won the Novel Peace Prize of 1931. Worked in the Hull House.
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Max Weber
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Max Weber
Also considered as the father of sociology. Came up with the four different types of social action.
Nationality: German. -
W.E.B. DuBois
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W.E.B. DuBois
Contributed much to our understanding of racial colonialism, racial enslavement, and placed the study of African Americans into two categories.
Nationality: Ghana. -
C. Wright Mills
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C. Wright Mills
Taught sociology at the University of Maryland, Columbia University, and was professor of sociology at Columbia.
Nationality: American.
